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I'm one of those 'purported feminists' as described by Maria Miller. Turns out we are damn well everywhere! #NoSelfID #sexmatters
Nov 27, 2019 12 tweets 6 min read
Here's an interesting photo from 2012 at Edinburgh City Chambers - Jo Swinson MP, Patrick Harvie MSP, Sarah Boyack MSP and Tim Hopkins of Equality Network, along with PIE member John Hein.

pressreader.com/uk/scottish-da… Ian Dunn, from the article above, was a co-founder of PIE. He was also director of this company, alongside John Hein and Tim Hopkins of Equality Network. The registered address is also the same address Equality Network was incorporated at.
May 15, 2019 14 tweets 5 min read
Stonewall announced a "by-women-for-women" meeting at Parliament on 4th June that is co-hosted by Angela Constance MSP and Equality Network (an LGBT organisation):



Here's the invite: Framing this as "by-women-for-women" is exceptionally disingenuous when the invite clearly says this is not for women's rights at all, but instead to support proposals for self-id of sex.
Mar 5, 2019 14 tweets 6 min read
@AngelaHaggerty said on @ScotlandTonight that women’s orgs “have been consulting”, and “services..are saying this is not a problem” to the @WG_Scotland survey that found increases in women self-excluding from women-only services because of intact males who self-id as women. So I had a search..
First survey form 2010 by the now disbanded Women’s National Commission which included 650 UK women’s sector orgs.
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It found that 99% (of the 297 women-only service users and providers asked) value women-only services:
Nov 25, 2018 6 tweets 4 min read
@ForwomenScot @EdinburghCC LGBT Youth Scotland is registered as a lobbying organisation, ie. they are a political pressure group who try to influence public policy in the interest of their particular cause. 1/ @ForwomenScot @EdinburghCC Schools have a duty to comply with Sections 406 and 407 of the Education Act 1996, which forbids "the promotion of partisan political views..." /2